earing their best stiletto heels, around 150 young women dashed in Amsterdam's 'Stiletto Run', in a bid to win the $15,000 (10,000 euros) cash prize.

The annual race on PC Hooft street, on its third run, has fast grown in popularity and has been imitated in Germany, Sweden, Poland and Russia. The race's motto is "Shopping is a Sport" and friendly competition is encouraged, but usually not practiced by the aggressive participants.

amily, health and religion - and not sex - make Filipinos most happy, according to a new Philippine Happiness Index.

The index, crafted by Dr. Romulo A. Virola, Secretary General of the National Statistical Coordination Board, was posted on the Board's website on Tuesday.

Palmira, a 12-year-old male was chosen Sunday as the best and finest Arab thoroughbred. The announcement was made during the 29th annual National Show of Arabian Horses in the popular Janow Ppodlaski stud-farm in southern Poland.

Reports said the annual show also attracted 32 mares and two stallions that were put on sale in this year's main auction, "the Pride of Poland." Some 16 other horses were auctioned off Sunday morning in a silent sale, organizers of the event said.

A 40-year-old man from Poland chopped off his own genitals with a knife after his wife left him. Tadeus Konopizc, who hails from Zakopane, cut off his penis and testicles with a 15cm kitchen knife in a fit of anger after drowning more than one bottle of Vodka.

According to reports, the man, who was in excruciating pain, still managed to call doctors to tell them about his idiotice deed and asked for help. The paramedics arrived on the scene and immediately asked for a helicopter to airlift the man to a special hospital, where they hoped to restore his penis back.

Poland's oldest woman, Benedykta Mackiello of northwestern Poland, reportedly died on Tuesday at 113 years of age. Poland's Radio Polonia said Mackiello was born in May 1893 in a village near the town of Vilnus, now in Lithuania.

Mackiello has reportedly been another record holder for spending more than 80 years in marriage.